The Third Man 1949, Vienna, They take footage Carol Reed and Graham Greene of the mist and fog some days come from England for atmosphere The end of the war The actors stand in overcoats still goes on in the city later ending the film crumble and ruin a last evening The hotel tablecloths dust Harry is dead again and cloud afternoons like he was supposed to be working on the script not hiding in secret The enormous wheel Reed finds like end of the year coming in the Praterstrasse like the dimmed streetlights' is written in dull globes The steps beneath the streets planned to ring and die away the cat ready in a box Trevor Howard jokes about the cobblestones the wet dowdy end-of-the-decade feeling he says clings to things like the weather The actors sip coffee in a cafe they shoot in "Four Ladies" Orson Welles sits with Joseph Cotton sorting out the next days in the few pages they leaf over Shooting goes late each day till the first moisture rusts up from the streets Dennis Saleh |